MCSD Jobs in the North West

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Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing MCSD across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

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Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MCSD across the North West region.

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Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCSD across the North West region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

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Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCSD within the North West region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location (Click each for more statistics)	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Manchester	+27	71	£40,000	+14.28%
Lancashire	+30	29	£35,000	+7.69%
Cheshire	-6	20	£35,000	+11.11%
Merseyside	+35	9	£37,500	+15.38%
Cumbria	-	4	£35,000	-
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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region citing MCSD also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited MCSD.

1 278 (100.00%) .NET 1 278 (100.00%) ASP.NET 1 278 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification 2 275 (98.92%) MCAD 3 274 (98.56%) MCTS 4 271 (97.48%) MCP 4 271 (97.48%) TDD 5 270 (97.12%) C# 6 269 (96.76%) MVC 7 266 (95.68%) ASP.NET MVC 7 266 (95.68%) Web Application Development 8 259 (93.17%) ASP.NET MVC 4 9 256 (92.09%) WCF 10 250 (89.93%) SQL Server 11 177 (63.67%) Razor View Engine

12 173 (62.23%) NUnit 13 172 (61.87%) Rhino Mocks 14 167 (60.07%) Scrum 15 148 (53.24%) Dependency Injection 15 148 (53.24%) Ninject 16 140 (50.36%) WPF 17 132 (47.48%) Castle Windsor 18 126 (45.32%) Kanban 19 119 (42.81%) Moq 20 99 (35.61%) Domain-Driven Design 21 96 (34.53%) Windows 22 95 (34.17%) WinForms 23 93 (33.45%) NHibernate 24 87 (31.29%) LINQ 25 84 (30.22%) MVVM

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region citing MCSD also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited MCSD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 278 (100.00%) .NET 1 278 (100.00%) ASP.NET 2 266 (95.68%) ASP.NET MVC 3 259 (93.17%) ASP.NET MVC 4 4 256 (92.09%) WCF 5 177 (63.67%) Razor View Engine 6 148 (53.24%) Ninject 7 140 (50.36%) WPF 8 132 (47.48%) Castle Windsor 9 95 (34.17%) WinForms 10 93 (33.45%) NHibernate 11 87 (31.29%) LINQ 12 79 (28.42%) Spring.NET 12 79 (28.42%) Unity DI Container 13 69 (24.82%) KnockoutJS 13 69 (24.82%) Node.js 14 46 (16.55%) MonoRail 15 42 (15.11%) Ajax 16 35 (12.59%) .NET Framework 17 27 (9.712%) HTML5	Application Platforms 1 8 (2.878%) Windows Azure 2 4 (1.439%) SharePoint 3 3 (1.079%) BizTalk Server 4 2 (0.719%) SharePoint 2013 5 1 (0.360%) IIS 5 1 (0.360%) SharePoint Server 5 1 (0.360%) SharePoint 2010
Applications 1 14 (5.036%) MS Excel 2 1 (0.360%) MS Office	Business Applications 1 2 (0.719%) Dynamics CRM 2 1 (0.360%) Bond Adapt
Communications & Networking 1 24 (8.633%) Internet 2 5 (1.799%) Broadband 3 1 (0.360%) Extranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 250 (89.93%) SQL Server 2 76 (27.34%) SQL Server 2012 3 61 (21.94%) SQL Server 2008 4 3 (1.079%) SQL Server 2005 5 1 (0.360%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications 1 173 (62.23%) NUnit 2 172 (61.87%) Rhino Mocks 3 119 (42.81%) Moq 4 79 (28.42%) MSTest 5 39 (14.03%) Subversion 6 7 (2.518%) Selenium 6 7 (2.518%) Cucumber 7 4 (1.439%) Visual Studio 8 1 (0.360%) MSBuild 8 1 (0.360%) Visual Studio Team System 8 1 (0.360%) CruiseControl	General 1 52 (18.71%) Games 2 49 (17.63%) Finance 3 25 (8.993%) Music 4 24 (8.633%) Retail 5 7 (2.518%) Advertising 6 5 (1.799%) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 265 (95.32%) Developer 2 255 (91.73%) .NET Developer 3 28 (10.07%) Junior 3 28 (10.07%) Graduate 3 28 (10.07%) Junior Developer 3 28 (10.07%) Junior .NET Developer 3 28 (10.07%) Graduate Developer 3 28 (10.07%) Graduate .NET Developer 4 15 (5.396%) C# Developer 5 10 (3.597%) C# .NET Developer 6 7 (2.518%) ASP.NET Developer 6 7 (2.518%) C# ASP.NET Developer 7 5 (1.799%) WinForms Developer 8 4 (1.439%) Senior Developer 9 3 (1.079%) Software Developer 9 3 (1.079%) C# Software Developer 9 3 (1.079%) Agile C# Developer 9 3 (1.079%) Senior Software Developer 9 3 (1.079%) Senior C# Developer 10 2 (0.719%) Microsoft Developer	Miscellaneous 1 79 (28.42%) Inversion of Control 2 53 (19.06%) Enterprise Software 3 31 (11.15%) Computer Science 4 27 (9.712%) Social Network 5 11 (3.957%) Tandem 5 11 (3.957%) Streaming Music 6 9 (3.237%) iPhone 6 9 (3.237%) Mobile App 7 1 (0.360%) W3C
Operating Systems 1 96 (34.53%) Windows 2 9 (3.237%) Android	Processes & Methodologies 1 271 (97.48%) TDD 2 269 (96.76%) MVC 3 266 (95.68%) Web Application Development 4 167 (60.07%) Scrum 5 148 (53.24%) Dependency Injection 6 126 (45.32%) Kanban 7 99 (35.61%) Domain-Driven Design 8 84 (30.22%) MVVM 9 80 (28.78%) Continuous Integration 10 77 (27.70%) BDD 11 73 (26.26%) OO 12 39 (14.03%) Business Intelligence 13 30 (10.79%) CQRS 14 25 (8.993%) Agile Software Development 15 7 (2.518%) Scrum-ban 15 7 (2.518%) E-Commerce 16 3 (1.079%) UML 16 3 (1.079%) OOA/OOD 17 2 (0.719%) OOD 17 2 (0.719%) CRM
Programming Languages 1 270 (97.12%) C# 2 57 (20.50%) VB 2 57 (20.50%) VB.NET 3 14 (5.036%) JavaScript 4 5 (1.799%) C++ 5 3 (1.079%) SQL 6 2 (0.719%) XPath	Qualifications 1 278 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification 2 275 (98.92%) MCAD 3 274 (98.56%) MCTS 4 271 (97.48%) MCP 5 6 (2.158%) MCPD 6 5 (1.799%) Degree 7 3 (1.079%) SC Cleared 7 3 (1.079%) DV Cleared 7 3 (1.079%) Security Cleared 8 1 (0.360%) MCSE
Vendors 1 40 (14.39%) Microsoft 2 9 (3.237%) Google